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Texas Republicans have decided on a platform that includes abolishing minimum wage, cancelling climate research, banning the teaching of evolution at schools, and repealing the voting rights act, among other things, but hilariously (or depressingly) the one thing on this laundry list that people are angry about is their plan to "rehabilitate" homosexuals, a practice that many say is harmful.
BBC News has more: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27774102
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You will be held hostage by a radical group.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Angry Jesus on Monday June 09 2014, @11:38PM
> give a detailed answer about the specific day in their lives that they decided to be hetero.
Considering how frequently it turns out that the biggest anti-gay crusaders are doing it as part of an internal struggle with their own sexuality, they probably could give an honest and heartfelt answer to that question.
Something to keep in mind is that these people often find themselves facing a terribly inhumane choice - they can be honest about their sexuality but if they do they will have to give up their entire lives. Their spouse will divorce them, their families will disown them, their friends will abandon them and their church will shun them. And for these people their church is usually at the center of their social lives.
They are under some incredible stress - choosing between their entire lives as they've always known them and one of the strongest biological compulsions in existence. That's one of the reasons they've come up with the idea that its OK to "be" gay as long as you don't have gay sex and thus why the idea of "praying the gay out" is sooo popular with them. It looks like it gives them a way out of an otherwise unsolvable problem. Of course, in the long-run it won't work, trying to live that way just keeps them in a permanent state of internal conflict.
So, yes it is utterly shitty that they end up "spreading the pain" and burdening all of the gay people in the state with their own personal issues. But they deserve compassion, if for no other reason than the practical. The more they can see the pro-gay (or really not-anti-gay) community as a friend rather than an enemy, the more they can envision being part of our community instead of just the intolerant one they've lived in all their lives.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 10 2014, @12:01PM
"Something to keep in mind is that these people often find themselves facing a terribly inhumane choice - they can be honest about their sexuality but if they do they will have to give up their entire lives. Their spouse will divorce them, their families will disown them, their friends will abandon them and their church will shun them. And for these people their church is usually at the center of their social lives."
Yo its not so bad, just enter the priesthood. No problemo, and there's multigenerational huge organizational pressure to help cover up if there's any complaints.
Besides its becoming a stereotype that everyone knows, understands, and accepts that virtually all anti-gay neocon men are deeply in the closet and highly active with other men. If there's one who isn't, that would be the shocker.
The only correct part is spouse will get pissed off. Hetero guys don't get a free pass from their wives either. In that part you were 100% correct the little lady is not going to be happy.
(Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Tuesday June 10 2014, @03:50PM
> The only correct part
lol at ego